In England apples were grown everywhere and had been there so long that Englishman considered them as native to their island.
The apple, as a fruit tree, will do no good expect in a fertile soil and a sheltered situation. Every kind of fruit, to be brought to perfection, requires s a soil more or less calcareous.
The climate of England the loamy on limestone rock that are found in the country, appear to bring the apple to the highest degree of perfection.
Different apples are associated with different counties:
Ashmead’s Kernel - Gloucestershire
King’s Acre Pippin - Herefordshire
Blenheim Orange – Oxfordshire
Ribston Pippin – Yorkshire
The main commercial fruit-growing areas of England – Kent, Somerset, Devon, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Herefordshire and Worcestershire – each have their own specialties.
Apple cultivation in England
